Robert Inglis (merchant)

Robert Inglis (died 1655) was a merchant and financier of Scottish origin working in London in the first half of the 17th-century.

[7] Inglis was involved in the finances of aristocrats, particularly those who had acquired lands both in England and Scotland,[8] including the Countess of Home, and her sons-in-law, the Earls of Moray and Lauderdale and daughters.

Inglis helped William Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian buy paintings for Newbattle Abbey, including works by George Geldorp.

[9][10] In June 1643, Inglis came to Glasgow in connection with a disputed cargo of "rich commodities", tobacco, and salt hides.

[11] In January 1646, Inglis lent £100 to James Hope, who was making a trip to Europe to research lead mining technology and to see Elizabeth of Bohemia at The Hague.

[16] Inglis obtained money for provisions and gold on bills of exchange to pay the Scottish army of the Solemn League and Covenant.

[18] At the time of the "Engagement", in December 1647,[19] Inglis received letters from Scotland for Elizabeth Maxwell, Countess of Lanark.

Further details of his property and business transactions were registered in the records of the Edinburgh Commissary Court, including bonds from the merchant John Clerk, and from Prudence Stock, a widow who held a freehold in Chelsea, and was a partner in Lady Lane of Horton's Charity.

[26] With John Jousie, in 1639, Inglis was appointed to be an executor of the will of Robert Johnstone LL.D., a historian and a benefactor of George Heriot's School.

[33] The younger Robert Jousie, a courtier and Yeoman of the Robes, had carried jewels to Spain for Prince Charles in 1623.